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Re: Bill McEwan
« on: February 15, 2008, 08:34:26 AM »
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Don't know about McEwan but McEwen has screwed us from the beginning.



Irvin Gould did that with bringing in the person who shall not be named  :madashell:



Hmmm - if you want me to understand whom you're tlking about I see no other way aside from naming the person...
 :roll:
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2008, 09:55:07 AM »
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Hi,

@Tension

Mr. McEwan is struggling to keep Amiga Inc. afloat,



What he stated about AInc's financial status during the Kent deal suggests otherwise...

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smerf wrote:

...wish him the best of luck.



You want me to wish someone luck who frauded me?
Really makes me think about your character...

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...Bill is a business man...



 :-D  :lol:  :laughing:
Muahahaha!
Really a good one...

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smerf wrote:

...trying to keep his company going,...



...by scamming his audience(s)!

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smerf wrote:

yes he is on our side



 :-D  :lol:  :laughing:
Muahahaha!
Annother good one...

You should really drop in as "Büttenredner" here in Cologne during the Karneval season - that might mean a new career you... ;-)

Hre only knows one side - and that's his own side and has not the least in common with the Amiga community side...
Wake up, man!

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but he has bigger fish to fry than trying to bring a new
Amiga Computer into the world trying to compete with
PC computers, think about it, it just not going to happen.



Already thought about that.
Maybe here's your misunderstanding.
Amiga Computers were never meant to compete with "industrial standard" PC computers (although they have indeed outacted them until - lets say - the mid ninetees), they were meant as "Home Computers" from the very beginning (no memory protection, no multiuser support, ...).

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He is currently engaged in writing software programs...



He's in no way qualified for coding tasks, AFAIK.
He's a former truck driver and nothing that has been made public so far tells he'd be able to write a single line of code...

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...he owns the industry and can shut your computer down at any time unless you pay him dearly.



He does not own "the industry" and he's definitely up to now not able to shut down my A4kPPC in any way...

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Case in point, I bought VISTA,



Lots of fun with it...
 :roll:

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my computer has been shut down several times for reactivation because I added new things to it (last one being a HP printer driver for my printer) now I will have to call (8th time in less than a year) some turkey in India, to have my VISTA reactivated for the 8th time. How much longer that will last I don't know because being a computer hardware hacker, I buy new uptodate hardware every couple of months. So MicroSoft has total control of my computer, and dictates what I can or can't do with it.



That's why I said "Lots of fun with it" above...

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So if Bill was smart,



Which "Bill" are you talking about - McEwing or Gates?

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he would currently take the old Amiga OS and port it over to PC computers to boot up from the start and get software people to ride his train on the Amiga OS.



Ever heard of AROS?
It' even "Open Source", AFAIK...

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Good Luck Bill McEwan, hope you read this and hopefully
you are still on Amigians side.



You whish a scammer luck? Makes me think about your character again...
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2008, 10:43:22 AM »
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(yea, I know keeping up an old Amiga 4000 is just as
costly).



Hmmmmm - I put together my Amiga4000PPC back in 1997/98, where the most expensive parts were the MoBo, the CyberstormPPC, the Micronik BigTower and the CybervisionPPC.

Two years ago I bought an Mediator PCI busboard (plus PCI cards) for it - but that was not that expensive.

Aside from that there were no significant costs to keep it up and running up to today...

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If the Amiga could have gone to the PPC about 10 years ago,
...



Actually it did that over 11 years ago (CyberstormPPC hit the market in November 1997)...
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Re: Bill McEwan
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2008, 10:48:22 AM »
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Hmmm - if you want me to understand whom you're tlking about I see no other way aside from naming the person...
 :roll:



He was a consultant who was brought in by Irving Gould. Irving was looking for ways to get rid of Thomas Rattigan.

For some reason Irving and Thomas (CEO of Commodore) really didn't play nice together. History has placed the blame with Irving.

This consultant made the report built to order, and reccomended that Rattigan got fired, and Irvin was happy to oblige, and rewarded him who shall not be named with the job has CEO.



Thanks for telling the story - but still I have no clue whom you're talking about (I didn't follow the Commodore internals very closely back then)...
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